Otterden is a
civil parish and village on the
Kent Downs in the
borough of
Maidstone in
Kent, England.
History
Otterden is mentioned in the
Domesday Book under Kent in the lands belonging to
Adam FitzHubert. The book which was written in 1086 said:
Otterden has an important place in the history of science:
Stephen Gray and
Granville Wheler carried out their seminal experiments showing that electricity can be conducted over long distances at Wheler's estate there in 1729.
From 1933 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1948, Otterden was the home of the
Bunce Court School
The Bunce Court School was an independent, private boarding school in the village of Otterden, in Kent, England. It was founded in 1933 by Anna Essinger, who had previously founded a boarding school, Landschulheim Herrlingen in the south of Germa ...
, founded by
Anna Essinger
Anna Essinger (15 September 1879 – 30 May 1960) was a German Jewish educator. At the age of 20, she went to finish her education in the United States, where she encountered Quakers and was greatly influenced by their attitudes, adopting them fo ...
when she closed her German boarding school after the
Nazi Party seized power and moved her school to England.
[Michael Luick-Thram]
"Anna Essinger and the New Herrlingen School"
Parish of Otterden website. Dissertation excerpt, ''Creating 'New Americans': WWII-era European Refugees': Formation of American Identities''. Retrieved September 28, 2011
References
External links
Villages in Kent
Civil parishes in Kent
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